As D. L. Moody was nearing death, he told a friend, "Someday you will read that D. L. Moody is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone higher. .. . I was born in the flesh in
1837; I was born of the Spirit in 1856; That which is born of the flesh may die; that which is born of the Spirit will live forever." He knew full well Jesus had promised that those who were His would not perish.